Ackerman, Angela

The emotion thesaurus : a writer's guide to character expression / Writer's guide to character expression Angela Ackerman & Becca Puglisi - Lexington, KY : The authors, 2012 - 164 pages : 26 cm

Introduction -- The power of emotion -- Character research: what to know to write authentic emotion -- Using dialogue to write emotion -- Subtext: what lies beneath -- Additional ideas for brainstorming fresh emotion -- Common problems with writing nonverbal emotion -- Using the emotion thesaurus -- The emotion thesaurus -- Recommended reading -- Praise for these writers helping writers resources -- emotion amplifiers -- One stop for writers.

Each of the 75 emotion entries list a definition, physical signals, internal sensations, mental responses, cues of acute or long-term emotion, escalation to a next level, cues of suppressed emotion, and a writer's tip.

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Fiction -- Authorship.
Ficción--Técnicas
Fiction -- Technique.
Escritura creativa
Creative writing.

PN 3355 / A182e 2012